It’s been a while since I hit this one but since last time, of course, things are getting worse out there. With prediction tools and apps being all the rage today, their reliability and accuracy are not always there. Before the word “prediction” took over, …
Continue ReadingHere we go again, the Big Brother push and of course could all these “motion” scores be combined and queried with medical claims and other information on hand at United? Sure they could and we now would have an entire new bunch of risk assessment scores to A…
Continue ReadingHere we go again, another lawyer ignorant of the fact that you have no index on data sellers and distributors in the US, so up comes another white flag as there’s no “data mechanics logic” here once again. They just keep falling as nobody will push Congress…
Continue ReadingOk if you have read here long enough, a few years, then you are accustomed to seeing outrageous flawed data posts about Healthgrades and Vitals over the years and I’ll put a few of the links here if you want to look back as they are dandies. When I say that…
Continue ReadingFortune put it right out in their article on why IBM was purchasing Truven Analytics, for the data. When companies acquire more data we all pretty much may know what goes next, more “big data” scoring and selling with consumer data. I’ve been writing about …
Continue ReadingOf course this fell right into my backyard campaign once again and once again I’ll state tha t we need an index on “who” all the data sellers and distributors are in the US. Now that additional “data flipping” is taking place to where you are sold, re-querie…
Continue ReadingIf you read here often enough over the last 3 years, this is nothing new as I have had a campaign to require Data Sellers, all of them, banks, companies, brokers, etc. to have to register and buy a license. Talk about an industry where there’s no transparenc…
Continue ReadingWould I used this, nope. More and more we all know there’s a trade off for apps and services and of course I’m sure this is no different as we all know United is the king at gathering data, data and more data about you, so why would this be any different? S…
Continue ReadingYou may or may not be aware of what’s going on with Big Data here but in China this is the deal, a Citizen Score that will determine everyone’s worth by using all sources of data available. So this is happening only in China? Wrong..we have Excess Scoring fo…
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